Stories that goes along with true life's history and experience definitely shape and propelled the upcoming about how the future would be, a better projection can be visualized. From the stories been told, the imagination or pictorial assumption sets in, thar is why I don't joke around Shakespeare explores books and stories @tarazkp
I don't see myself stopping reading stories either fictional or true life based because it matters alot.
@tarazkp when you state that we can never know how to react to any situation till we are in it, prediction and imagination can set in but the actual action or reaction is in the process.